Mackay to Noosa

We left Airlie beach after a few really enjoyable days, drove through Mackay where we thought we'd spend the night, but having arrived there we saw that there wasn't much so we carried on driving. We saw signs for Awoonga Dam and decided to check it out. It was incredibly hot on this day, so we went swimming in the dam, which was really slimey and muddy at the bottom, but cool and refreshing too, and then found a nice caravan park nearby to spend the night. That evening it rained a bit and we were sitting in our van playing cards when a kangaroo hopped right past us. It was so quick that we couldn't get our camera on and snap him in time. We've also seen wallabies along the side of the road a few times and wild horses, but still no koala bears.
The next day we headed to Hervey Bay for 2 days. We met a really "nice" Australian couple here. The guy told us a few stories about things he'd been up to, including breaking into a zoo and fighting kangaroos and at present he's on parole for another offence and has to stay in Queensland. They unfortunately had to leave on the second day as the guy had a court hearing, so there wasn't much time to build on what might have been a beautiful friendship.
We had a relaxing couple of days here and didn't do too much as the weather wasn't great again, but we had a swimming pool, table tennis, pool table and tv here to keep us entertained.
The next day we drove to Rainbow beach and found a camp site just a few km's outside town, Sarawak inskip. Apart from compost toilets, there weren't any other facilities here, but it was right on the beach and had lots of big trees providing nice shade. From here we could see onto Fraser Island, it was the closest we could get without actually going there. We didn't dare get too close to the waters edge though, as we were warned about crocodiles and sharks lurking around these waters.
We wanted to be in Brisbane for the weekend, so had 1 more night left and decided to go to Noosa. This was a pretty place with lots of shops and a nice beach. The camp sites were quite expensive here, so we found a place in a little town a few minutes drive away. We knew as soon as we got there that it was going to be an interesting place and we weren't wrong. There were loads of caravans and tents / houses that looked like they had been there forever. And the inhabitants of these places had long grey hair and beards and funny bits and bobs outside there homes. The shower was also very interesting, I shared mine with really big spiders and bugs and I had leaves blowing in there too. And that night I got attacked by the Aussie mozzies and now have horrible sores all over me, I was absolutely fine through South East Asia, but here I'm being eaten alive.